MANTRAS

  by Cappy Love Hanson


Against the certainty of uncertainty, 
the inevitability of the inevitable, 
against the underlying nature of nature,
	she’s created mantras.  

Into the airy aura around couples, 
mothers pushing babies in strollers, 
grandfathers fishing with grandkids,
she gestures
	Love one another.  

To mobile homes hauled in halves:  
	Bless this house and all its parts 
	and all who live and visit there.  

For rabbit mashed on pavement, 
for rhinoceros beetle or skunk--
for struck-down deer splay-legged, 
belly bared to coyote, vulture, and ants--

for these allegories of straight highways
and winding two-lane back roads of life--
	White light, white light, white light, 

a full-spectrum invocation 
for the greatest good, her own
uncertain certainties included.